Victorian ghost stories / by eminent women writers ; edited by Richard Dalby.

Preface -- Introduction -- Napoleon and the spectre / Charlotte Bront -︡͡- The old nurse's story / Elizabeth Gaskell -- The last house in C-- Street / Dinah M. Mulock -- Round the fire / Catherine Crowe -- The cold embrace / Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- Not to be taken at bed-time / Rosa Mulholland -- The story of Salome / Amelia B. Edwards -- The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth / Rhoda Broughton -- Reality or delusion? / Mrs. Henry Wood -- Winthrop's adventure / Vernon Lee -- The old house in Vauxhall Walk / Charlotte Riddell -- The open door / Margaret Oliphant -- Cecilia de Nol͡ /︡ Lanoe Falconer -- Many waters cannot quench love / Louisa Baldwin -- The prayer / Violet Hunt -- Let loose / Mary Cholomondeley -- The Villa Lucienne / Ella D'Arcy -- The striding place / Gertrude Atherton -- The affair at Grover Station / Willa Cather -- The vacant lot / Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman) -- Haunted! / Isabella Banks -- Notes on the authors.